2y ago

Apple to over 100 California employees: Move to Texas or lose your job

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Apple to over 100 California employees: Move to Texas or lose your job::Most of the team working on key Siri operations is already based in the Texas captial's Apple campus. Others in San Diego are receiving al ultimatum.

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This should be illegal
- It often is https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/eta/warn/glossary.asp?p=Constructive%20Discharge
  
  Note that isn't illegal, it just means the company doesn't get to get out of paying unemployment when it happens. And that's only if someone is willing to challenge them on it.
- What do you mean? If it was, they would just fire someone in CA and hire someone in TX.
  
  Have you not noticed how fucking stupid Texans are? Good luck finding talent
"I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Texas." - Lucille Bluth
- Arizona* Lucille wouldn’t even joke about moving to Texas
It’s just sneaky layoffs through attrition. Honestly these are work from home jobs (listen and evaluate recorded snippets) so there’s no other reason to make them move.
- Tax laws. Thats why they want them to move to Texas.
“No.”
California has some pretty decent laws tilted to employees, I’m curious how this will shake out.
didnt they just build some billion dollar donut they cant fill?
Anybody at Apple will have half a dozen offers by the end of the week if they tell LinkedIn they're open to new opportunities.
- A couple years ago, sure! Today, the entire tech sector is downsizing.
  
  It's a bit of a weird time. The big guys cut thousands of jobs last year, but if you were willing to go to anything that wasn't FAANG, there were jobs everywhere.
  I had ~5 offers within a month of being laid off last spring.
  
  AANF(M) engineers can still write their own check generally speaking.
  
  I still get random emails from companies offering me job interviews every week and I haven't been searching for jobs in over 5 years. The amount coming from the massive companies like Amazon and Google have plummeted, but I still get an email from one of those every few months asking if I want to talk.
- I’m not sure people from the Siri team are going to be in high demand.
Reason #437 to unionize
- I would have thought there would be a lot more of them by this point
Hopefully not without moving assistance. I can't imagine that people can just pick up stakes and move 3 states away!
- Especially to fucking texas. I couldn't handle that political 180. It's why I moved away from the south and back to MN.
  
  It’s Austin…
I'm somewhat a fanboy of Apple but this would ruin it for me. No way you could get me to step into the state with the lowest quality of personal liberties in the country.
Take the severance, then get a job somewhere else near home. They’ve worked for Apple—the world is their oyster

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